12 comments

Garben

Totally agree with the elderly being issued licenses every year not four years things change in your body and mind much quicker as you age. I feel sorrow for the loss of the mother grandmother friend etc but feel deeper for the truck driver as this will weigh on his mind and his families till death god bless all you truck drivers and thank you for a service we couldn’t possibly go without

I work at a hospital and the majority of car accidents that come in are elderly people. They absolutely 100% should not be behind the wheel at a certain age. It should become mandatory that at a certain age, they must retake a drivers course. They are a huge road hazard. It’s sad but it keeps happening.

Real thinking

a driving test would be a start, but a yearly physical when you turn 65 would be the key. Mental and physical tests. All you really have to do is watch somone for a couple of minutes and you can tell if that persons mind and body is in a different universe floating in the clouds just waiting for their life to be over. there are plenty of buses and transportation services for old people to get to bingo and the store to buy cat food.

Maybe if everyone treated each other like human beings instead of savages. Hey but let’s raise speed limits so people have less time to react. S<M<A<R<T< hey let's have 18g speed and see how psycho society becomes…RIP to her

Snshn

Although I feel bad for the womans family and also for the truck driver, I personally agree with Scran Tony. These elderly people don’t belong behind the wheel!
My whole life has been altered by an 84 year old woman who’d come across four lanes to hit me in the fifth!
It’s crazy that these elderly are driving.
Only my personal opinion, but they need to have to go through the process of taking their drivers testing again after a certain age.

Thehammer

JP

My sympathy to the family that lost a loved one and to the driver. Although it was an accident, it will likely weigh heavy on his mind. And I speak from experience, as my dad went through the exact same thing years ago when he drove truck.

YesSir

Yep. I went through it too. It weighs on your mind forever, even when you know it wasn’t your fault and there was nothing you could have done. Being with someone who takes their last breath, in that situation, never goes away.